Although trivial to some, nuggets of pointless statistics, percentages, and myth-busting explanations provide hours of fun discourse — especially over a few beers with friends.
“Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp — or, in some species, algae,” says the next poster. “In order to keep flamingos pink, zookeepers mix another chemical into their food. Otherwise, they’d be white.”
A military expert explains the appearance of tanks used as display vehicles. “If the barrel of the tank is kept high, it means that (the) tank has taken part in a war and won, but now (is) decommissioned.”
When you enter a store, you feel a blast of air pushing down, known as an air curtain, “which acts as a barrier and doesn’t let the cold air inside the store flow outside.”